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Overview

Ranked among the busiest solid organ transplant programs in the country, the division of transplantation's clinical and research specialties are liver, kidney, kidney/pancreas and islet transplantation for adult and pediatric patients. Division faculty performed Georgia's first transplants in all of these specialties:

		First kidney transplant in 1966

		First liver transplant in 1987

		First simultaneous kidney/pancreas operation in 1989

		First living-related pediatric liver transplant in 1997

		First laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy in 1999

		First islet transplant to treat Type 1 diabetes in 2003

Dr. Christian Larsen is the chief of the division, as well as director of the Emory Transplant Center (ETC), an umbrella organization that oversees and integrates all of Emory's academic, clinical care and research resources in organ transplantation. With Dr. Thomas Pearson, Dr. Larsen co-directs Emory's internationally known transplantation immunology laboratory, which studies the immunologic mechanisms of transplant rejection and immunologic tolerance with the primary goal of achieving true immune tolerance in organ and tissue transplants.

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Postgraduate Training

General surgery residents rotate through the transplant service in their first and third years of training and often do research sabbaticals in the immunology lab. For candidates who have completed a residency in general surgery, the division also offers a two year clinical surgery fellowship accredited by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons that features training in kidney, pancreas and liver transplantation. Interested fellows may elect to spend additional time focusing on basic or translational research by working in the laboratories of division faculty.

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Prospective Patients/Referring Physicians

The following links, located on the Emory Transplant Center website, provide contact information, procedural details, statistics and outcomes, transplant team descriptions, and more:

		Heart

		Islet

		Kidney and Kidney/Pancreas

		Liver

		Lung

Adult procedures are performed at Emory University Hospital.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston is the clinical site for pediatric heart and lung, kidney and liver transplants.

The Emory Healthcare website includes details on the bone marrow transplant program.

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Transplant Links:

		Coalition on Donation A non-profit alliance of national organizations and local coalitions dedicated to increasing organ donation.

		Georgia Transplant Foundation Meeting the needs of organ transplant candidates, living donors, recipients and their families by providing information and education regarding organ transplantation and financial assistance.

		LifeLink of Georgia An independent, non-profit organ and tissue recovery organization dedicated to serving patients in need of transplant therapy and their families.

		Transplant Experience Features include information on medications, a support group locator, patient stories, tips for healthy living post transplant and more.

		Transweb A nonprofit educational web site serving the world transplant community. Based at the University of Michigan, TransWeb features news and events, patient experiences, the top ten myths about donation, a donation quiz, and a large collection of questions and answers as well as a reference area with everything from articles to videos.

		United Network for Organ Sharing A non-profit, scientific and educational organization that administers the nation's only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). Through the OPTN, UNOS collects and manages data about every transplant event occurring in the U.S.; facilitates the organ matching and placement process using UNOS-developed data technology and the UNOS Organ Center; and brings together medical professionals, transplant recipients and donor families to develop organ transplantation policy.

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